I thought it wasn't so much the complexity of war as it was the ability to come up with the best strategies. The way your thinking of things, using a Naval Battle group as an example is flawed. The US has the best weapon technology on the planet. So it basically uses brute strength to win. But what if the enemy had an exact same weapons as the US ? Then it boils down to who can come up with the better strategy. Hence the idea behind the book.
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I thought it wasn't so much the complexity of war as it was the ability to come up with the best strategies. The way your thinking of things, using a Naval Battle group as an example is flawed. The US has the best weapon technology on the planet. So it basically uses brute strength to win. But what if the enemy had an exact same weapons as the US ? Then it boils down to who can come up with the better strategy. Hence the idea behind the book.